Literaturas posautónomas 2.01

Abstract

In this essay it is suggested that present day Latin American literature has abandoned its own sphere: of a well defined fiction, of the clear requirements of a text to constitutes «literature», including the classifications of gender. That sphere of «the literary» protected by rules and institutions, loses its durability; the power and capacity to exercise political pressure that the literature had just a few years ago is therefore limited. The present literature, concluded the era of its autonomy, would speak of a modern life in which «everything economical is cultural » and where «all fiction is reality» (and vice versa in both cases). Now the ordinary constitutes real life, but controlled by information and communication technologies (which give it characteristics of reality or of unreality). It is suggested that the challenge of attempting to read them from other parameters; in a different way, could result in the simplicity of labeling them as non-literature or «bad literature».